Risk Management For Traders: Stops, Sizing & Survival
Published 5/2026
Created by Alfonso Garcia
MP4 | Video: h264, 1920x1080 | Audio: AAC, 44.1 KHz, 2 Ch
Level: Beginner | Genre: eLearning | Language: English | Duration: 12 Lectures ( 1h 39m ) | Size: 465 MB

12 lessons on drawdowns, position sizing, stops, R/R, diversification, journaling, psychology, hedging & black swans.
What you'll learn
⚡ Calculate exact position size from your stop distance and account risk for every trade
⚡ Place fixed, trailing, and ATR-based stops with confidence on real charts
⚡ Apply the 1% rule and minimum risk-reward ratios to every setup
⚡ Manage trader psychology - fear, greed, FOMO, and revenge trading
⚡ Survive black swan events and avoid the mistakes of famous blown-up traders
Requirements
❗ Basic familiarity with trading or investing - you should know how to place a buy or sell order
❗ A trading platform or paper-trading account where you can practice sizing and stops
Description
Most traders learn how to enter trades. Almost none learn how to survive them. This is the course that closes that gap.
In 12 short lessons you will master the discipline that keeps professional traders in the game while retail accounts blow up
• The math of drawdowns - why a 50% loss requires a 100% gain just to recover
• The 1% rule - why professional traders risk so little per trade
• Position sizing - calculating exact share size from your stop distance
• Stop losses - fixed, trailing, and volatility-based (ATR)
• Risk-reward ratios - and why expected value is the only number that matters
• Portfolio diversification, correlation, and the classic 60/40
• The trading journal - your single most important tool
• Trader psychology - why discipline beats intelligence every time
• Hedging with options and inverse ETFs as portfolio insurance
• Black swan events - surviving the unforeseeable
• Famous trader blowups - warnings nobody can ignore (LTCM, Niederhoffer, Archegos)
• Long-term wealth - turning risk discipline into a compounding edge
Every concept uses real examples: real drawdown math, real stop placements on SPY and AAPL, real correlation matrices, real case studies of accounts that survived 2008, COVID, and 2022 - and accounts that didn't.
By the end you will not just know how to manage risk. You will think in terms of survival first and profit second - the only mindset that compounds over years and decades.
This is Course 3 of the Trading Trilogy. Course 1 (Reading the Markets) gives you chart-reading skills; Course 2 (News-Driven Trading) gives you catalysts. This course is what keeps everything you have learned alive over the long run.
Who this course is for
⭐ Traders who can find good setups but keep blowing up accounts on a few bad trades
⭐ Investors who want to survive the next bear market or black swan with their capital intact